3 the event attracted all sorts of people to denver avenue that day in 1957. Some thought that the idea of burying a new car was dumb;others thought it was brilliant.raffle ticket (for the car) were sold . the person to guess the approximate population of tusa in 2007 would win.’’I’ll never be alive,’’said teddy baxter , aged 6. ‘’sure you will,’’answered his brother henry, who was 19. ‘’I might not be, but you’ll be around fir sure.’’ Gene mcdaniel,who was 20 at the time,thought:’’in 2007,I’ll be 70 – I’ll never make it’’.